Track days are for pushing sport and race cars to the limit.

Only a fool, or a TopGear presenter, would gun a standard road car around the likes of Brands Hatch or Donnington Park.

Image and ambition aside, there’s another very good reason for that. Brakes.

For the motor industry, fuelling female representation is a hot topic.

According to Deloitte’s Women in Automotive Industry report, 90% of women feel they are under-represented in leadership positions.

It’s been 24 years since Williams last produced a Formula 1 world champion.

In that period they’ve had precious little to shout about, the nadir surely being three consecutive last place finishes between 2018 and 2020.

But now the legendary constructors are looking to pip their rivals to a rather different title.

The eyes of the world will be on Glasgow this month as the highly anticipated COP26 gets underway.

For the first time in six years, international governments will convene to thrash out means of tackling global warming.

Supermarkets have long delivered but imagine having your groceries ferried to you by way of a self-driving car. Never mind crowds, this would remove all human interaction from the weekly shop…to the delight of agoraphobics and despairing dads everywhere.

“Now pay attention 007…” was for decades the cue that Q - James Bond’s faithful quartermaster - was about to provide a detailed rundown on our favourite secret agent’s newest car… ejector seat and all.